Good and bad, up and down the country

So you know that saying about how life never gives you more than you can handle?

It’s not true. It’s just something people say. Even when it’s a mix of good and bad, it can be simply too much.

I just zoomed up to Chicago to tape a Wait, Wait, which was really great because Michael Moore was there — right there! — not to mention all the other Wait, Wait-ers — Carl Kasell! Peter Sagal! right there! And then I zoomed back to H-town to find out my dog is really, really sick, in a maybe not-getting-better way.

And it’s been a long couple of weeks in other ways, and I’m just sayin’. You’d have to be a lot better person than I am to just embrace the good. I’m going to hate it unbearably if I have to let go of Sparky. There. I said it.